Aitkaniy Ganiygul, a Kazakh woman, pleads for her husband's released in a video. China Aid Photo |
Distributed by ChinaAid, July, 2018 ...
ILI KAZAKH AUTONOMOUS REGION, XINJIANG – Amid mass arbitrary detentions of ethnic minority Muslims, officials in China’s northwestern Xinjiang began arresting moderately wealthy businessmen last year, according to a recent ChinaAid report.
An anonymous Xinjiang Muslim confirmed this, saying the region is heavily sentencing those involved in manufacturing or real estate. “The police also warn the relatives of the sentenced person not to tell the truth to [people living abroad], even overseas relatives. Every time we pass customs, we need to be very careful, for we don’t know when the day will come in which we are all seized.” ...
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